Brandon Takayuki Hillier

Sessional Assistant Professor Credentials Ph.D. candidate, Geography, University of British ColumbiaM.A., Geography, University of British ColumbiaB.A. (Hons.), Urban Studies, York University Research Keywords Labour markets; Crossborder migration; Occupational communities; Technology work; Regional development; Bourdieusian analysis Contact Information 4700 Keele StreetToronto, ON M3J 1P3 416 736 2100 takayuki@yorku.ca Research Interests Brandon Takayuki Hillier is an economic

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Environmental Storytelling and Digital Media

Description This experience encourages students to merge academic research with creative media components and environmental activism to learn how to communicate complex environmental issues to the public. Examples Examples Include: Faculty Involvement Environmental storytelling emphasizes narration and its potential to mobilize as students learn to frame environmental knowledge through ethical storytelling, visual literacy and advocacy.

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GreenTech Entrepreneurship Simulation Lab

Description Students engage in immersive, scenario-based simulations and innovation labs that replicate real-world environmental challenges and green sector dynamics. These experiences combine professional role-playing with entrepreneurial thinking to address environmental problems. Examples Examples Include: Faculty Involvement EUC faculty members act to guide these exercises with input from policy networks, community organizations or green industry professionals.

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York University hosts leadership education events for students, educators across Canada

By Alex Huls | August 1, 2025 Through a collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC), York University’s Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) is now home to national leadership programs that empower students and educators to drive community change. AKFC is a non-profit international development organization and part of the global Aga Khan Development

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EUC Global Connection: The Caribbean

Professor Andil Gosine’s work in the Caribbean began at the start of his career. As an academic, Gosine wanted to investigate the issues of sexuality rights, especially as they impacted LGBTQ2S+ communities within the Caribbean. Gosine’s efforts to advance sexuality rights had a groundbreaking impact, with him leading the charge in organizing the first major

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Passings: Gerald Carrothers

Author by Alex Huls | Originally posted on YFile. Gerald Carrothers, a visionary academic and founding dean of what is now the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, passed away on April 20, just short of his 100th birthday. An architect by training, Carrothers held a PhD in economics and regional planning from the Massachusetts

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Exploring death through multispecies and creative collaboration 

MES student and artist, Sabrina Rose Capista showcased her research-creation project, Let Us Rot in EUC’s 31st Eco Arts Festival from March 17-28, 2025 as part of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Over the course of her time in the MES program, Sabrina has been studying mycology, death and rebirth in spiritual traditions, and

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Why bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roads

by Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva and Steven Lum In late 2024, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 212 giving the provincial government significant control over municipal bike lanes. The law requires municipalities to ask the province for its approval to install bike lanes if they would remove a lane for other vehicular traffic. The legislation also allows for

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2025 – EcoArts and Media Festival – Fugitive Ecologies

Deriving Ontario Municipal-level Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity data

by Peri Dworatzek, MES, PhD student and Partnership Coordinator for the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab Fall 2024 marked the release of the first Ontario municipal Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity dataset. This data presents a one-year snapshot of local levels of consumption [ecological footprint] and natural resource regeneration [biocapacity]. All the data is publicly available

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